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Patented Aug. 2, 1881.

. 7517/672 /o'r'dt GASKET HANDLE..

:FL W. MORGANfav J.' A. LAKIN.

(No Model.)

- i 7`UN1'TED' STATES `PATin'vfrf4 Darlene HUBERT w. MORGAN AND JAMES A. LAKIN, oF WESTFIELD, MASS.

oAsKE'i'i-HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters ,Patent No. 245,203, dated August 2, 18 81. Appneenonmed Jima 6, 1881. No model.)

ceivethe handle, and when the two parts ot" the arm are secured together one of itsfpartsf locks the 'arm into the socket which is secured to the casket, and causes the arm to move in the socket with the desired amount of friction; and we accomplish this by the means snbstan tially as hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure I is a front view of a socket adapted` tion of the arm and the socket at line B and Fig. VI is a side view of the arm, showing the two portions of the arm moved apart and the eye opened or enlarged to receive the handle.

In the drawings, 2 denotes the socket, which is flanged and adapted to be secu-red to the casket by screws, and which socketl is open from one side to the other, and is provided on the inside with two inwardly-cylindrical trunnions, as 6.

-The arm 4 is provided at one end with a partially-spherical-shaped head, as 5, made to approximatelyr iit the correspondinglyfshaped upper Vportion of the opening in the socket, and also with a shoulder, as 3, at the lower part of the head, to approximately fit, and bear against the end of the socket. This head is also provided with a recess on each side, as 7, which recesses are open at the back side to receive the trunnions 6 in the socket, and which are provided with a curved shoulder at the front side to approximately fit and bear against the trunnions.

The arm 4 is' divided or made in two parts,

y Vas shown clearly in Figs. III and VI, one portion 4 being connected at the lower end with the eye 12, andthe latter-being connected with the other divided portion 10 of the arm, the eye. being separated on the line of division of the arm, as shown clearlyin Figs. III and VI, and the extreme end of the divided portion 10 of the arm is extended out on each side, so as to bear Aagainst the trunnions on the back side, as Shown clearly in Fig. IV, andin dotted lines in the other figures.

A screw, 11, inserted in the part 10 of the arm, .and turned into the main part of the arm, secures the two parts of the arm together and in place, and also`secures the eye firmly on the handle 13, and also holds the extreme end, 8, which I denominate the friction-plate, for convenience in this description, against the trunnions 6 on the back side with more or less friction, according as the Screw 11 is turned 7o in more or less to cause the arm 4 to move with the desired degree of friction in the socket and cause thearm to remain in any position` of elevation into which it may be placed, if required, as shown in dotted lilies in FigfIII.'

The eye 12, which receives the handle 13, may be made with ashoulder, 9, at each side, to reduce the diameter of the inner portion of the eye, with a corresponding reduction in diameter of the handle, wit-h a shoulder at each side, as shown clearly in Figs. I, III, and V, for the purpose of assisting in holding the handle in its desired relative position with the arm.

Herctoforein the manufactureof casket-handles it has been necessary to construct the handles in diierent and separate parts, and to cover or trim each part separately with its textile covering, because it is desirable, to give the best and proper proportions, that the ends 14 9o should be considerably larger in diameter than the part 13 between them, and as the eye 12 has hitherto been made solid, the ends 14 usually being doweled into the part 13, the handle has been taken apart by removing one of the ends 14 and the middle portion, 13, inserted into the eye and the end replaced again.

It is much more/expensive to construct the handle in separate pieces, and by our invention we avoid this expense, besides all the trouble Ioo incident to securing the handle into the eye, as it is usually fastened by turning a screw through the eye into the handle.

By making the arm divided and securing the part l to the main portion of the arm by the binding-screw l1 we are enabled to make the handle 13 solid, whether of wood or metal, and to place it in the eye 12 by bending the part l0 away from the main portion of the arm 4, as shown clearly in Fig. VI, and opening the eye 12 far enough to insert the handle 13, the arm and eye being made of some suitable metal that will bend sufficiently for this purpose. After the handle is inserted in the eye the head 5 is inserted in the socket by holding the arm 4 nearly parallel with the iange of the socket and inserting the truunions into the recesses 7, and then bending the part up against the part 4 and turning in the screw 11, securing the handle 13 in the eye l2, and also pressing the friction-plate S in against the trnnuions 6, so as to cause the arm 4 to move in the socket with the desired degree of friction, all with one fastening-screw.

The handles 13, with the parts 14, being all made in one piece and bored out at each end to receive thc metal tips l5, may be either plaite'd with twine or thread of any desired fabric, or with cloth of any suitable kind, for its whole length, and the metal tips be afterward inserted into the ends of the handle, and, if desired, plated metal rings may afterward be sprung onto the covered handle to improve the appearance and produce the desired contrast.

1t is, of course, evident that the arm 4 may be secured in the socket by any other desirable and convenient means, and yet the arnl be divided longitudinally, so as to open the eye 12 to receive a solid handle or one made in one piece.

It is obvious that one socket and arm may be used to secure the handle to the casket with the eye about midway the length of the han die, as shown in Figs. I and 1I, or two arms and sockets may be used to each handle, with one eye near cach end of the handle.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new is- 1. In an improved casket-handle, the combination, with a socket adapted to be secured to the casket, of a divided arm, having an eye made thereon which is adapted to be opened to receive the handle by bending the two parts of said arm away from each other, and in which eye thehandle is secured by forcingthe two parts of the arm together and there securing them by a screw, substantially as described.

2. In au improved caskethandle, the combination of a socket adapted to be secured to the casket and provided with two inwardlyprojeetin g trunnions, a divdedarm provided with a recess, as 7, in each side ot' its head to receive the said trunniou's, and with one part of said arm extending to a point behind vand adapted to be pressed against said trunnions by a screw turned into said arm, whereby the handle is secured to said arm and the latter moved in its socket with the desired amount of friction, substantially as described.

3. In an improved casket-handle, the coiubi nation ot" a socket adapted to be secured to a casket, a divided arm secured in said socket, and a handle made in one piece, coveredwith a textile fabric and recessed to receive a shoulder in the eye made on said arm, and secured in said eye by a screw securing the two parts of said arm together, substantially as described.

HUBERT W. MORGAN. JAMES A. LAKIN. Witnesses:

ORLANDO BRUCE, E. L. FARNHAM. 

